§ The result
Test Partnership leads Paycor by 10 points.
Test Partnership sits 10 points above Paycor under rubric v1.0 — 50 against 40 — with Test Partnership filed under Assessment and Paycor under ATS-integrated. Test Partnership leads 6 of the 7 criteria, including Bias Audit Transparency, while Paycor leads 1, including Post-Market Monitoring. Bias Audit Transparency is the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing at once (Paycor 25, Test Partnership 48, 18% weight), but it accounts for only 38% of the weighted advantage Test Partnership holds across the 6 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Paycor
Paycor, a Paychex company, sells a mid-market HR and payroll suite whose recruiting tools include the Paycor Recruiting ATS, Paycor Smart Sourcing (formerly Talenya), which uses AI to build a prioritized list of passive and active candidates for each role and automate outreach, and a WISE assistant that phone-screens candidates and scores their answers.
Vendor profile
Test Partnership
Test Partnership publishes computer-adaptive aptitude tests, the TPAQ personality questionnaire and MindmetriQ game-based cognitive assessments. Employers review, rank and export the resulting norm-referenced percentile and sten scores in its dashboard, through its API or in integrated ATSs.
§ The record
Paycor is filed under ATS-integrated AI, Test Partnership under Assessment AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Screening.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Colorado AI Act and Illinois HB 3773. Only Test Partnership is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Paycor | Test Partnership |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | GB |
| Founded | 1990 | 2012 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 36% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Paycor 25 · Test Partnership 48
4.1 weighted points to Test Partnership
20% weight · 66% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Paycor 40 · Test Partnership 57
3.4 weighted points to Test Partnership
15% weight · 78% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Paycor 27 · Test Partnership 36
1.3 weighted points to Test Partnership
15% weight · 87% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Paycor 50 · Test Partnership 57
1.1 weighted points to Test Partnership
12% weight · 92% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Paycor 38 · Test Partnership 33
0.6 weighted points to Paycor
8% weight · 97% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Paycor 55 · Test Partnership 62
0.6 weighted points to Test Partnership
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Paycor 55 · Test Partnership 58
0.4 weighted points to Test Partnership
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -10.3 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 11.5 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -10 beside that -10.3.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Paycor minus Test Partnership.
| Category | Weight | Paycor | Test Partnership | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 40 | 57 | -17 | -3.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 25 | 48 | -23 | -4.1 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 27 | 36 | -9 | -1.3 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 50 | 57 | -7 | -1.1 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 55 | 58 | -3 | -0.4 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 38 | 33 | +5 | +0.6 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 55 | 62 | -7 | -0.6 |
| Total | 100% | 40 (F) | 50 (F) | -10 | -10.3 |
§ Evidence
Cited sources and documented absences, criterion by criterion.
An absence is a finding, not a blank: the reviewer looked for a named artefact and recorded that it is not located. Where a source sits is a fact about hosting only.
| Criterion | Weight | Paycor | Test Partnership | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 3 | 1 | — | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 4 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 24 | 6 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 26 | 6 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Paycor has 30 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 24 with a source URL, 6 documented absences; Test Partnership has 32 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 26 with a source URL, 6 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Paycor and Test Partnership sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 62 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 30 for Paycor, across 6 distinct source domains, and 32 for Test Partnership, across 3 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Paycor last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Test Partnership last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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